The main idea about inquiry based learning is to gear the students' actions toward their own learning. Use the textbook as your springboard. Get the students thinking outside the book! Make the students ask the questions. Value their input in their learning.
Example: Say you are about to study chapter 4 on family and home. Enjoy a brainstorming session as you introduce the chapter. Have students think about what they need to know about family and home vocabulary, verbs, culture, etc. If they were in a situation speaking the target language, what would they need to know to be able to communicate? Incorporate their ideas with the lessons from the textbook.
General ideas:
-Have students create study guides for one another.
-When you introduce a new topic, designate a student teacher that will review the lesson to the class before the assessment.
-Have students create admissions materials in the target language.
-Have a reporter of news for the week from the countries that speak the language.
-Have a weather reporter give the weather for the week in the target language.
-Create a calendar for the month and label all the events in the target language.
Inquiry Based Learning
Inquiry based learning is something that we have been talking about already. Remember these proverbs? We have even see them on Monday faculty notes!
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Read this overview article from www.thirteen.org
The main idea about inquiry based learning is to gear the students' actions toward their own learning. Use the textbook as your springboard. Get the students thinking outside the book! Make the students ask the questions. Value their input in their learning.
Example: Say you are about to study chapter 4 on family and home. Enjoy a brainstorming session as you introduce the chapter. Have students think about what they need to know about family and home vocabulary, verbs, culture, etc. If they were in a situation speaking the target language, what would they need to know to be able to communicate? Incorporate their ideas with the lessons from the textbook.
General ideas:
-Have students create study guides for one another.
-When you introduce a new topic, designate a student teacher that will review the lesson to the class before the assessment.
-Have students create admissions materials in the target language.
-Have a reporter of news for the week from the countries that speak the language.
-Have a weather reporter give the weather for the week in the target language.
-Create a calendar for the month and label all the events in the target language.